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Building Services Engineering l July/August 2020
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LIGHTING – New SLR and ELR guidelines In December 2019, the European Commission published the new Single Lighting Regulation (SLR) (i.e. Ecodesign Regulation for lighting) and the Energy Labelling Regulation (ELR). Whereas the SLR sets productspecific performance requirements for energyusing and energy-related products, the ELR lists the labelling requirements for selling those products on the EU market. While these changes have huge implications for lighting manufacturers and distributors, they also have huge significance for consultants when specifying lighting solutions. This article was prepared by LightingEurope as a guidance document for is members on SLR and ELR but contains information that could also prove invaluable for consultants. The result of nearly five years of negotiations, the SLR and ELR will apply from 1 September 2021, except for the removal of labelling requirements for luminaires which started from 25 December 2019. Both will have significant consequences for the lighting industry. ELR applies to light sources only, while
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While these changes have huge implications for lighting manufacturers and distributors, they also have huge significance for consultants when specifying lighting solutions.
SLR applies to light sources and separate control gear, with luminaires only being indirectly addressed. However, luminaire manufacturers must review the rules and ensure that their products comply with the new requirements. To ensure you have all the information you need to comply with these complex regulations, LightingEurope has put together the following summary. Ecodesign – improving product performance The Ecodesign Regulation (SLR) establishes EU-wide rules for improving product performance, including that of lighting. It pertains to light sources and separate control gear and to light sources and separate control gears within a containing product. Similar to the ELR, the SLR defines a light source to include lamps, modules, and even some containing products. A containing product is defined as a product containing one or more light source(s), or separate control gears, or both. Examples of containing products are luminaires that can be taken apart to allow separate verification of the contained light source(s), household appliances containing light source(s) and furniture (shelves, mirrors, display cabinets) containing light source(s). According to the SLR, the supplier of a containing product must ensure that the light source and separate control gear used in their containing product complies with all relevant EU legislation – including the SLR. As the SLR sets minimum mandatory requirements for energy efficiency, any product that fails to meet these requirements will be phased out, starting with products like CFLi lamps in 2021 and followed by products like T8 fluorescent lamps in 2023. As this phase-
out happens, these light sources will need to be replaced with new energy-efficient light sources and lighting installations will have to be renovated. The new SLR introduces several elements of the circular economy. For example, manufacturers, importers and authorised representatives of containing products must ensure that light sources and separate control gears can be easily replaced using commonly-available tools and without permanently damaging the containing product. Furthermore, they need to provide instructions on how to “extract” a light source, which can be explained using drawings, text, images, etc. If a technical justification related to the functioning of the containing product is provided in the technical documentation explaining why the removal for verification of light sources and separate control gear is not appropriate, then the entire (containing) product has to satisfy all the performance/information requirements. The SLR requires that manufacturers, importers and authorised representatives of containing products provide information about the replaceability or non-replaceability of light sources and control gears by end-users or qualified persons. This information must be made available on both the packaging and in the user instructions, typically in the form of a pictogram. However, these symbols are not to be used on containing products that are a light source (e.g., luminaires).
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